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repenting sinners. See Jer 31:20, Since I spoke against him I do earnestly remember him still. See Jdg 10:16.
The imprisonment of Simeon, Ge 42:24. He chose him for the hostage probably because he remembered him to have been his most bitter enemy, or because he observed him now to be least humbled and concerned; he bound him before their eyes to affect them all; or perhaps it is intimated that, though he bound him with some severity before them, yet afterwards, when they were gone, he took off his bonds.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the
inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, my money is restored; and, lo, it is
even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, what is this that God hath done unto us?
The dismission of the rest of them. They came for corn, and corn they had; and not only so, but every man had his money restored in his sack's mouth. Thus Christ, our Joseph, gives out supplies without money and without price. Therefore the poor are invited to buy, Re 3:17, 18. This put them into great consternation (Ge 42:28): Their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done to us?
1. It was really a merciful event; for I hope they had no wrong done to them when they had their money given them back, but a kindness; yet they were thus terrified by it. Note,
(1.) Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense, and to put wrong constructions even upon those things that make for them. They flee when none pursues.
(2.) Wealth sometimes brings as much care along with it as want does, and more too. If they had been robbed of their